Word: old
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...accurately informed about the American West than Americans are, as the young West Berliner claimed [June 18], but the American West lives on today in the form of the frontier myth-a very potent influence, for better or worse, on the American national character. Be our view of the Old West ever so phony, we are living...
California seems to have solved the problem of gas closings by taking more drastic action than other states. After officials discovered that the odd-even purchase arrangement was not working because 90% of the stations shut down on weekends, they invoked a four-year-old law that gave them emergency powers in case of a severe energy shortage. Said Richard Maullin, chairman of the California energy commission: "It was definitely time to legislate by decree." Stations with odd-numbered pump registrations were required to stay open on Saturday, those with even numbers on Sundays. Police handed out citations to station...
...socialist transformation." The People's Daily of Peking pointed out that 95% of the 230,000 or so Sino-Vietnamese whom China has admitted in recent months have come from northern Viet Nam, where the Communists took power in 1954. Asked the paper: "How was the [25-year-old] socialist transformation served by dismissing Chinese from their jobs, forcing them to retire, demoting them and reducing their pay, cutting their food rations and even detaining and arresting them?" And finally, it might have added, by sending them to a watery grave...
While Bob Watson--Scott's replacement--was belting drives and hits and homers for the Sox, Scott executed the old "George Scott double play" with startling timing and precision against his old teammates yesterday. While this may delight Fenway's dregs, some of whom managed to turn "Boomer" to "Boomer," it is a sad sight to behold, and an uglier one to hear. But it is better for George Scott and better for the Red Sox, who no longer have to rehabilitate old muscles, but must take care that their new ones stay in shape...
Even if Stendahl and Rupp have similar perceptions of the Div School's goals, it may be difficult for the Div School to view Rupp as similar to his predecessor. Stendahl is 58 years old; Rupp, at 37, is the youngest Harvard dean. And Rupp acknowledges his deanship "may require some adjustment of perceptions." He adds, "Right down to the movers who moved us in, people tend to think that deans are venerable old men--if not institutions...